The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Mr Malone said that the $44 million the Government is purporting to
spend on ISP filtering would not be nearly enough to cover Australia's
more than 700 ISPs.
"I can tell you that if all the ISPs were to be involved it will cost a lot more than that." he said.
According to Mr Malone, the only way to effectively filter the Internet is in the home.
"What's good for a six year old boy is not going to work for a 15 year
old girl who needs to do research for high school assignments. A
one-size fits all approach to filtering will never work," Mr Malone
said.
Mr Malone said that Senator Conroy should listen to SAGE-AU (the System
Administrators Guild of Australia) which has stated that the proposed
filtering system is not technicallly sound.
"Senator Conroy knows all this. His own figures show that the proposed
system will slow the Internet down between 2% and 86%. Yet he won't
listen to anyone. He's the worst Minister in the Rudd Government."
To date no major ISP other than iiNet has committed to participating in the trial.
Primus CEO, Ravi Bhatia, told iTWire that the broadband provider was still considering its position on the matter.
"There's still 18 days to go before the closing date of submissions," he said.
iTWire rang Senator Conroy's office for a response and was asked to
contact spokesman Tim Marshall by email. An email was sent this
afternoon to Mr Marshall containing the gist of Mr Malone's comments.
As this was posted, a reply has yet to be received.
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